Scott Noble's new film, "Human Resources"

[anothershamus]

Damn fine film. I watched 3/4ths of it last night before I fell asleep. Gonna watch the rest and/or the whole thing again today. Managed to send off a link to it to a number of people before I succumbed to unconsciousness. I think it's must see viewing.

Not good to fall asleep in the middle of this one, you might wake up naked in a field, 200 miles away from home.

and Wombaticus Rex wrote:

A little slick goes a long way.

That's part of the trouble with our society, too much slick and it loses the 'humanity', (or... still looking for the right word) but it stops us from thinking about other aspects and directs our thoughts towards one objective, yes, if that is the design of the 'slickness'.

Anyway, this movie made me realize that if this much got out, how much more is being done to us without our knowledge and what free choice do we really have left?

[Wombaticus Rex]

Is the material important? I think it is, and that's why I'd like to see this body of information reach a wider audience. Certainly there is a balancing act between the largest possible audience and the lowest common denominator, but Human Resources would have benefited from higher production quality and tighter editing. It would be more accessible. More importantly, that personal opinion of mine really doesn't matter for two reasons: first, Human Resources is a finished product so whatevski, and second, because something more professional and accessible will come along. The genre is always improving.

[chump]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this video is worth a million.

[slomo]

I watched about 75% of the movie before I quit. Sorry to disagree with everybody, but I don't see what the big deal is. None of the material was particularly surprising to me. Anybody who has been reading RI for several years would recognize all of the touchstones highlighted in the movie, and probably would be able to cite most of the data presented.

Did I miss something?

[Wombaticus Rex]

Something interesting -- to me at least: the footage at 1:28:45 of the soldier on LSD...that guy is exactly the same fellow who showed up in The Century of the Self at the beginning of Part Two. (@ 2:30 in my copy.) Curtis presents the footage as an interview of a solider who has had a mental breakdown -- yet here he is in Human Resources as a drug test subject at Edgewood.

Interesting, is all.

[Stephen Morgan]

I watched about 75% of the movie before I quit. Sorry to disagree with everybody, but I don't see what the big deal is. None of the material was particularly surprising to me. Anybody who has been reading RI for several years would recognize all of the touchstones highlighted in the movie, and probably would be able to cite most of the data presented.

Did I miss something?

That's what you get for knowing too much. I mean, I didn't learn that much from part five of Evidence of Revision. Think of it as visual poetry, like The Power of Nightmares.

[tazmic]

I watched about 75% of the movie before I quit. Sorry to disagree with everybody, but I don't see what the big deal is. None of the material was particularly surprising to me. Anybody who has been reading RI for several years would recognize all of the touchstones highlighted in the movie, and probably would be able to cite most of the data presented.

Did I miss something?

Just the end.

What began as cultural control experiments based primarily on fear became our daily reality. Cut to footage of 911. That's all.

[MacCruiskeen]

Scott Noble's NEW new film:

Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist 'democracy'

Haven't watched it yet - too preoccupied with the ongoing catastrophe in Japan. But of course all these things are closely connected.

The reviews are very positive:

"Lifting the Veil is the long overdue film that powerfully, definitively, and finally exposes the deadly 21st century hypocrisy of U.S. internal and external policies, even as it imbues the viewer with a sense of urgency and an actualized hope to bring about real systemic change while there is yet time for humanity and this planet. See this film!"

- Larry Pinkney
Editorial Board Member & Columnist
The Black Commentator

“Lifting the Veil is a major contribution to political documentary. It teaches everyone from the uninitiated to the most sophisticated the true nature of the American government... It covers the issues clearly and succinctly, from the opening narrative through to its stirring conclusion.”

- Ralph Poynter
lynne stewart defense committee
new abolitionist movement

"The best political film I've seen to date. A must watch if you want to understand who and what Obama is about, as well as this hypocrisy they call democracy."

- Kiilu Nyasha
Independent Journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party

"A wonderful, powerful film"

- Leah Bolger
National Vice President, Veterans for Peace

"In less than two hours, documentarian Scott Noble eviscerates the myth of the American dream, laying bare the grinning, skeletal greed at its core. It’s the best single compilation we’ve yet seen on the corruption that has demolished the American commons and the lives of billions across the globe."

- Richard Brenneman
eats shoots 'n leaves

"Noble is brilliantly pioneering the new film-making -- incisive analysis, compelling sound and footage, fearless and independent reporting, and the aggregation of the best information out there into powerful, educational and free online feature films – all on a shoestring budget. His films educate and inform while building the movements needed for real change at the grassroots. Noble's films are dedicated to democracy; they fan the flames of non-violent, people-powered revolution."

- John Stauber, Founder, PR Watch

[Bruce Dazzling]

Scott Noble's NEW new film:

Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist 'democracy'

Haven't watched it yet - too preoccupied with the ongoing catastrophe in Japan. But of course all these things are closely connected.

The reviews are very positive:

"Lifting the Veil is the long overdue film that powerfully, definitively, and finally exposes the deadly 21st century hypocrisy of U.S. internal and external policies, even as it imbues the viewer with a sense of urgency and an actualized hope to bring about real systemic change while there is yet time for humanity and this planet. See this film!"

- Larry Pinkney
Editorial Board Member & Columnist
The Black Commentator

“Lifting the Veil is a major contribution to political documentary. It teaches everyone from the uninitiated to the most sophisticated the true nature of the American government... It covers the issues clearly and succinctly, from the opening narrative through to its stirring conclusion.”

- Ralph Poynter
lynne stewart defense committee
new abolitionist movement

"The best political film I've seen to date. A must watch if you want to understand who and what Obama is about, as well as this hypocrisy they call democracy."

- Kiilu Nyasha
Independent Journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party

"A wonderful, powerful film"

- Leah Bolger
National Vice President, Veterans for Peace

"In less than two hours, documentarian Scott Noble eviscerates the myth of the American dream, laying bare the grinning, skeletal greed at its core. It’s the best single compilation we’ve yet seen on the corruption that has demolished the American commons and the lives of billions across the globe."

- Richard Brenneman
eats shoots 'n leaves

"Noble is brilliantly pioneering the new film-making -- incisive analysis, compelling sound and footage, fearless and independent reporting, and the aggregation of the best information out there into powerful, educational and free online feature films – all on a shoestring budget. His films educate and inform while building the movements needed for real change at the grassroots. Noble's films are dedicated to democracy; they fan the flames of non-violent, people-powered revolution."

- John Stauber, Founder, PR Watch

I'm 47 minutes into this film that you just posted, Mac, and there are too many awesome highlights to mention, but here's a 2 minute bit (used in the film) that sums up the sentiment in a nutshell.



Oh, and I found the whole thing on Youtube, so I'm embedding it here.

[WakeUpAndLive]

I'll have to give this a look later tonight, thanks for the info I was waiting on his next film.

[nathan28]

I watched about 75% of the movie before I quit. Sorry to disagree with everybody, but I don't see what the big deal is. None of the material was particularly surprising to me. Anybody who has been reading RI for several years would recognize all of the touchstones highlighted in the movie, and probably would be able to cite most of the data presented.

Did I miss something?

No, just some academics' analyses being misrepresented as "we're not liberals honestly" New Left anticommunism pretending to be radical.

I stopped when the special guest appearance turned out to be John Taylor Gatto, who claims that reading Julius Caesar's autobiography in Latin was standard in seventh grade (or was it eighth? anyway I'm not making that part up) in "'aught-eight'" when he was teaching. Dude is right about some things but really just a cranky reactionary joker. Kinda sucked b/c I wrote it to DVD so I didn't have to watch it on a tiny, tiny screen.

[MacCruiskeen]

I watched about 75% of the movie before I quit. Sorry to disagree with everybody, but I don't see what the big deal is. None of the material was particularly surprising to me. Anybody who has been reading RI for several years would recognize all of the touchstones highlighted in the movie, and probably would be able to cite most of the data presented.

Did I miss something?

No, just some academics' analyses being misrepresented as "we're not liberals honestly" New Left anticommunism pretending to be radical.

Nathan, did you write that sentence after the fourteenth double scotch or was it in fact composed by a random word-generator? I think we should be told.

I stopped when the special guest appearance turned out to be John Taylor Gatto, who claims that reading Julius Caesar's autobiography in Latin was standard in seventh grade (or was it eighth? anyway I'm not making that part up) in "'aught-eight'" when he was teaching. Dude is right about some things but really just a cranky reactionary joker. Kinda sucked b/c I wrote it to DVD so I didn't have to watch it on a tiny, tiny screen.

There was no "special guest appearance" by Gatto or anyone else. He was one of about two dozen speakers in the damn thing. Nonetheless, nathan, I apologise for having ruined your evening by recommending a film that featured at least one speaker you didn't agree with 100%. Mea culpa, and shame about that wasted dvd. I hope you can recover from the pain someday, perhaps with the help of a qualified trauma therapist.

None of the material was particularly surprising to me.

Well, good for you, slomo. But then, you're not everyone.

Anybody who has been reading RI for several years would recognize all of the touchstones highlighted in the movie, and probably would be able to cite most of the data presented.

No doubt. But then not everyone has been reading RI for several years, or even for several minutes. In fact, very few people have been reading it at all.

I presented these films as resources worth sharing, not least because they are shorter than several years. I didn't expect a cacophonous outbreak of sniffing from Renaissance Men so exaltedly well-informed that nothing can ever surprise them, much less interest them.